we're live in gaithersburg tonight, tom fitzgerald, fox 5 local news. >> looks like a lot of fun. thank you, fits, your source for political news 5@of:30 every day aft election it's coming right up at "fox5 local news" at 6. >> weighing in on colin kaepernick presidential protest and what the president had to say about his right to do what he's doing you're asking yourself what is the world is going on. that's local opera singer. police arrested her for doing what she loves. what gives? hey, sue. >> i'm looking forward to hearing about that shawn. here's what's giving in the weather center. a beautiful labor day. it's delightful out. no humidity either you have noticed it's a warm day. as we look at skies expect a gorgeous sunset and also expect things to really be heating up in the next several days and heat wave number eight looks to begin tomorrow. i'll have the forecast ahead. jim. >> and thank you, sue. if you have a story give us a call "fox5" 2028953000 or tips @wttg.com. >> xhapder is chief 2 is standing behind colin kaepernick's decision to stand be behind sim sglaevl he'

tom fitzgerald joins us with the story and also dramatic new security footage of the suspected gunman. fitz? >> reporter: this is infewer rating crime. begs the question if someone would shoot a pregnant woman, what else are they capable of? dc police want to know the answer. we're going to show you video. we want you to take a good look at this video. if you think you might know these people in this video, there's a $10,000 reward on the street right now for information in this crime a pregnant woman shot and later goes ton lose two babies. one was named heaven, the other was named neven. you know that this is the video the dc police released to us today. you see those two men walking up that sidewalk on the right side of your screen? they're about to begin shooting. one of them is going to crouch down, pull out a weapon and start firing shots right there. people run off. they run for cover. she wasn't able to to get out of the way. just walked out of a store buying a cheesesteak. loricka was an innocent bystander. she wasn't the target. she and another man were shot and critically i

tom fitzgerald fox 5 >>> the political world is mourning a pioneer.ore sarah palin, before anne coulter. as a woman, she broke ground. she was credited with helping to feed the equal rights amendment in the 1970s that would have out allowed gender discrimination and she founded the political group, she died in her home after a battle with cancer. fill list was 92 years old >>> a group of firefighters in fairfax county got a welcome surprise. members of the world mission society church in virginia hand-delivered lunches with framed letters of appreciation to fire stations across courthouse. take a look. oo >> meals to firefighters in berks, springfield, centerville and fairfax. looks like everyone was happy. >>> medical students learn how to save lives. >> one student was put on the test at a gym and let say he past the test with flying colors. here's the story from clarksville maryland. >> reporter: he got to columbia gym hours later than he normally does on friday august 26. but he was just in time to handle an emergency. a 60 something-year-old man

sunday september 4, tom fitzgerald alongside vermont ronica cleary. >>

. >> tom fitzgerald joins us. we're getting at look at dramatic news, security video of the suspect, i understand. >> reporter: we sure are. in just a minute, we're going to go to want you to look very carefully at your television screens. if you can the identify the two people you're about to see, you might be able to help solve the shooting. that nearly took the life of a pregnant woman who later went on to lose the two babies she was carrying. those babies had names. you should know those names. one was heaven, the other nema. now that you know that, watch this. we want you to look at this video. this is tuesday night. this is august 30th. 10:00 at night of the 1300 this shows the moment two men walk up that sidewalk there and you see them running away. they have just fired the shots. they run back down the screen right in front of you there. the young mother, 21-year-old, she had just walked out of a store to buy a cheesesteak. winds up getting shot. police say she was an innocent bystander. she wasn't the tar

tom fitzgerald joins us live from gaithersburg used to this kind of attention there. >> oh, boy, you're right about that, jim, consider this they've been doing this gaithergaitherburg labor day parade for 78 years, forksz back when franklin roosevelt was in the white house. and while fdr is still well nont same can't be said about some of these down ticket candidates, particularly people who are running for the u.s. senate here in the state of maryland. so, both of them were out today. and they have one thing on their mind. breaking free of the shadow of clinton and trump. >> we know, politics these days means a ton of twitter and a fountain of facebooking but let's face it. >> chris van holland, ladies and gentlemen. >> there are old school political traditions that even in the 21st century still hold up. >> maryland is big. >> that would be chris van holland pressing flesh at the 78 gaithersburg labor day parade. until now he represented one congressional district and holland spent summer crisscrossing maryland 24 counties and 12,000 square miles. >> old-fashioned handshaking, door to

. >> tom fitzgerald was at the parade. fitz folks had a lot of fun.hat about the politicians >> reporter: well it's critical for down state can dailts. you look at what is going on in the presidential race. it's you know, we talk about this every night. on 5@630 these presidential candidates hillary clinton and donald trump sucked the air out this balloon on people's attention because they're getting so much attention, people are not paying as much attention to what's going on down ticket. downtic set very important. consider whoever does get elected to this white house they're going to have to deal with this congress and deal with the house and deal with the senate. now it's critically important to either democratic or republican party if they have their party in control. right now republicans have both houses of congress. and that is not a given, given these numbers we're seeing going on. democrats had their eyes on the senate. and now, they would like to be able to take the house back that's out in gaithersburg today we have congressman chris van h

. >> let's bring in tom fitzgerald to weigh in on this. >> reporter: we're going to get a look at both. this will be something new york ci t remarkable. this is called the commander in chief forum, sponsored by the iraqi and afghanistan veterans of america. now, what this is, trump and clinton are not going to be on the stage at the same time. they're going to appear one after another. but what we're going to be able to hear is what both of their vision is in kind of a job interview, if you will, along what they think their qualifications are to be commander in chief. so hillary clinton, we know, what has she been saying? i'm going to continue the boom administration policies, i was the secretary of state. i know what to do. the problem is that a lot of what hillary clinton says sounds a lot like what the obama administration has been saying, certainly they've had their troubles on stomping out isis and what's been going on with the islamic extremists and these continue lone wolf threats here in the united states. clinton people will say if trump big plan is i'm going to call in the ge

. >> our own tom fitzgerald visited the university of of maryland and no surprise here, students gave both candidates mixed reviews. >>reporter: here'sxed the deal, it's no secret college voters denned to vote democratic. a lot of people know that. however, they seem to sharere something in common with college republicans and it's this, a new tufts university study found that both college democrats and college republicans are not are happy with either choice thatt they have for president of the united states. it is something that we found reflected here at the universit of maryland.of when you look at these two candidates, are you happy withhp your choices?ices >> no, not at all. > why? them reflect my my views and i would really like to see a candidate who i could -- d feel i could depend on. i personally don't trust hillary. i think berniehe means, but p the more i see onon social media about hillary, shee says one thing, when it comes tm the e-mails and her thoughts when it comes to the black community i don't support.supp pretty much, i specifically like hillary and donald trump i

sunday september 4, tom fitzgerald alongside vermont ronica cleary. >> talking about these politicaltorms, we've got like a real storm this morning actually that before we get into all this you know stuff involving politics, you want to talk about. it it's screwing up everybody's labor day plans. >> i know we have to check in with weather. forget the headlines. >> caitlin roth is nice enough to you do extra duty this morning and stick around with us. thank you for doing this caitlin. >> thanks for having me i'm honored to be part of "fox5" on the mill. >> where are we at with this thing. >> tail end of hermine and that's good nuxtz this tropical storm put a damper on anyone's beach plans and moved well offshore and not really impacting us and in fact in d.c. we're looking at beautiful rest of weekend. so hermine as it stand post tropical storms strong. 65 mile app hour winds and wind still lashing coast where tropical storm warnings are in effect next 24, 4 hours it will continue to move northeast war ward. it will continue to bring high surech and wind current from beaches cape cod

. >> tom fitzgerald has been living with hepatitis c for years. then his liver failed. during katie's senior year when she was is a star on the basketball team. she was setting records on the court. her dad couldn't wait anymore. >> living donor transplantation is a way to provide a liver to a patient that may not be able to get a deceased donor transplant >> the chief of transplant surgery at penn medicine. >> it's the only solid organ in the body that has the ability to grow and region rate >> katie was the only suitable match for the transplant. her four brothers were tested along with other family members >> i was hoping it would be somebody else. >> the retired truck driver was worried about his 22-year-old daughter having major surgery and losing part of her liver. >> he told me 1,000 time, i didn't have to do it. that wasn't an option, once i knew i was an match, a ready to go through with it. >> she never listened to me. >> you can see that we actually measure the size of our livers. >> in june, the doctor received 60% of katie's liver and transplanted it into h

we are live at nationals parkk tonight, tom fitzgerald fox5 local news.ew >> a teenager in fairfax fai county is dead tonight. tonight. he was shot last night inn lorton and right now police pole don't have any leads.have aeads fox5's alexandria limon isimon i live with the latest on theest n victim and the search for his killer.ller. alex. >> reporter: that's right,s rig that 17-year-old was actuallyy shot right here in thishis courtyard, and if you take and u look around, you can see it is surrounded by homes. hom. now, we he -- we he did talk tal to several people that live here and they said they heardy a at least two gun shots shortlyho after 10:30 last night but asigt you can imagine for obvious ovio reasons they didn't rush torusht their win goes to look out andut see what was happening.pe so now the fairfax county county police department has a dead 17-year-old on their hands andnd they have no information on a a possib so, all night last night and nig pretty much all day today,, homicide investigators spentrs e the day here combing through thu the scene, looking for evidence..

tom fitzgerald tells us that the effort was unveiled today in capitol hill on washington. >> denise marianoe halls of congress, but she will also tell you that she never thought her own son would start abusing opioids. >> i didn't know. and i was blind sided. >> reporter: the numbers are shocking. 78 americans, they will die today from the opioid abuse. a national problem that is clearly in demand of national attention. >> and these are the kinds of things that they could do. and that they would want to seat worthiness of the cause. >> and that is gordon smith the president of the national association of broadcasters on capitol hill, announcing that through the end of 2017, that you will be seeing ads like this one on opioid abuse. they are bold and they are blunt. and beneficial. >> they were targeted. but to find out she tried heroin. >> reporter: the broadcasters including fox television station, they are teaming up to blanket the opioid abuse message on air and online. the goal? getting your attention when you and your family watched tv. >> the abuse deaths are skyrocketing up 248% over

. >> tom fitzgerald has been living with hepatitis c for years. then his liver failed. during katie's senior year when she was is a star on the basketball team. she was setting records on the court. her dad couldn't wait anymore. >> living donor transplantation is a way to provide a liver to a patient that may not be able to get a deceased donor transplant >> the chief of transplant surgery at penn medicine. >> it's the only solid organ in the body that has the ability to grow and region rate >> katie was the only suitable match for the transplant. her four brothers were tested along with other family members >> i was hoping it would be somebody else. >> the retired truck driver was worried about his 22-year-old daughter having major surgery and losing part of her liver. >> he told me 1,000 time, i didn't have to do it. that wasn't an option, once i knew i was an match, a ready to go through with it. >> she never listened to me. >> you can see that we actually measure the size of our livers. >> in june, the doctor received 60% of katie's liver and transplanted it into h

fox5's tom fitzgerald iserald is there with more on this one assa we talk about the two men atoptp thep ticket. hey, fitz. >> reporter: you tell me. you two areor there. tre. do opposites attract.. >> we made this work. >> sometimes. are you talk about us? we're ue not opposites. >> reporter: yeah,. >> we're not opposites. >> reporter: oh, you're not. >> come on fitz. >> reporter: this is live television.sion. two quick observations about what i've been listening to. matt lauer if you're going tk o do one of these forums don't get up at o dark 30 and stay sy up late.ate. clearly needed sleep. the other thing gary johnsonyohn probably did more to raise public consciousness about about aleppo than anything over the past year.past he's going to take it on theon t chin this one but in a weirdn ai way he's probably provide service to that issue. issue back to what we were talking.al. >> real quick our boss said wee should play pin the tail onon aleppo and see how many people p knew where it was on map. m >> i'm guessing a lot of people wouldn't know. >> reporter: somebody askedter:m me if i

adele phi tonight, tom fitzgerald, fox5 local news. > and we are learning more about a brief scare in northwese d.c. this afternoon. police were called to forth reno park on 40th street northwest after someone reported seeing a possible hand grenade left on a bench. officers checked out the suspicion device and it turns out it was no. no one was hurt.e as a precaution, students and staff at two locals were ordered to shelter in place while police were investigating. > a prince william county man te fox5. this weekend he and his wifefe woke up to find their house had been hit by gunfire. tonight prince william county police say theyliam don't have y information that connects this shooting with 17 other incidents over the last year. matt ackland is life in dumb fridays with more on this one. we've heard a lot about these lately. >>reporter: we sure have and authorities are saying now as well as the homeowners inside they're not exactly sure when the shooting takes place. it probably happened late sat night, early into sundayy morning. i want to show you evidence ofee the shooting right

isis inspired terrorists mayts possibly be targeting stadiums and sports venues.ue fox5's tom fitzgeraldn the team is set to take the field tonight.onig tom, what to we know aboutnow ab this warning? warni >> reporter: well, tony, wee can tell you law enforcementnfme officials in our area are very aware of this bulletin.ulletin. what they are not so eager toert do is go on camera and talk andt about this, but this is what isw we know tell you. you this appears to be an update upt of a department of homelandf hoa security national terroristort alert bulletin that originallyri went out in june and has nowhasn been updated in just the past p few days.s. it says this. t according to national securityy officials, isis inspired loneon wolf home grown terrorists may be altering their targeting ofto government and military installations and are nows and n looking at civilian targets tar like stadiums and ball parks.la. this is what we can show you. this document went out in just t the past couple of days.ay two law..., to law enforcementnt officials nationally. nat it has gotten the attention of

. ♪ ♪ >>> the sun rose on a cold midwestern morning, and tom and mai fitzgerald were facing the worstent of their lives. >> what in the world happened? how could this be? it just seemed like a complete nightmare. >> they were at an early morning basketball game with their youngest child when they got a terrifying phone call from a fellow parent, who was at their home. she said their 17-year-old daughter tara was lying unresponsive in the basement. tom told her to call 911. >> oh, my god. her lips are blue. and i don't -- i don't feel a pulse. i don't feel a pulse. >> you don't feel a pulse? >> correct. >> okay. try to shake her and shout, are you okay? does she respond? >> tara, are you okay? >> are you all right, tara? are you okay, sweetie? nothing. >> are you okay? >> tom and mai raced home to find their house surrounded. >> just a lot of cop cars and ambulance. i was praying. >> and the paramedics were working on her, trying to get her to breathe. i talked to her. just saying, please, tara. you know. come back. and trying to encourage her. >> they put her in the ambulance, took he

fitzgerald starting to lead. and they know they need to make a field goal. and new without tom brady and folks, it's about the system, not the talent. more highlights coming up at 11:30. and we sit down with e. j. smith, the first one to win an nfl career. >> this is going to be a great show. this is my first show. i was already been palms, hard rock. and this is a wonderful page to have this in my book on the strip. >> wishing the best of luck to him. should he win, he will get the title fight closure of his boxing career. >>> the latest trend, pokemon go >>> and the new miss america is miss arkansas. debbie shields. >>> well, the new miss was crowned-miss arkansas. she wins a $50,000 scholarship, a 6-figure salary including appearances during her reign. rachel wyatt was first runner >>> anchor: and pokemon go is connected to your watch and connected by bluetooth. and apple reveal that pokemon go will available on apple watch later this year. with the new app you don't have to look at your phone to play. >>> anchor: well, this weekend was the return of nfl football but it was

tom brady ?and? rob gronkowski were not in the game. was garapolo just really good or should we be worried about our cards larry fitzgerald is not showing signs of slowing down - - despite rumors this may be his last season.. a few days back.. n-f-l media's ian rapoport said the 33-year-old would call it quits at the end of the season. but last night -- after but last season. but last night -- after scoring his 100-th touchdown -- he disregarded the rumors.. saying he's not thinking that far ahead.. right now. just last month -- larry inked a one-year on a related note.. former seahawks running back -- marshawn lynch may come out of retirement.. and it could be soon. n-b-c reporter -- mike florio says lynch is considering making a return to the n-f-l during week four or five. now.. the seahawks still own his rights.. and would have to decide whether to welcome lynch back on the roster..trade him.. or release him. we could learn more about lynch's possible return -- tonight on "running wild with bear grylls." that's right - grylls as they navigate through the rugged mountains of corsica.. and even come face to face with a wild hog. you c

fitzgerald grabs it. >> and then graroppolo got a position for a position through the patriots win 23 -21. >> the patriots now have three games to go before tom brady returns from his four-game suspension. but have no fear. new england fans, he's staying sharp. >> here's the proof. it's a picture posted by his wife. that's brady throwing a pass to his super model wife. she says don't worry. i'll keep him ready. >> she did the perfect catch. her form looked -- extension was great. >> there's a debate going on in new england. not necessarily whether or not there's a quarterback controversy, but who is hotter? >> oh. >> tom brady or his replacement on the right. >> i'm not sure brady thought he would be up for that competition. >> that is garoppolo. apparently in some of the blogs he's been known to distract teammates by being alarmingly good looking. he's been known to be good looking in public, and >> good looking in public? garoppolo asking if gisele has any friends. >>> coming up, after making an escape, a fugitive speaks out about why he went on the run. >>> and later, it's the battery linked to dozens of fires. are there any other products

tom brady. garapalo looking like he will do just fine for new england. the td pass to chris hogan and giving the pats an early lead. larry fitzgerald'sone-point lead in the fourth. look at that concentration. new england up two and a chance to win. the 47-yard try is no good. the pats win it 23-21 and now with three home games until brady comes back. >>> chiefs were down 23-3 early against san diego. on the two-yard keeper a devastating loss to the chargers 33-27 the final. pete carroll needed to be extra energetic for seattle and miami. 30 seconds to play. russell williams lost it up -- lops it up and they win it 12-10. former cal quarterback aaron roger rains for a score and dash -- dash aaron rodgers ran for one. that is all arm strength right there. the packers win it 27-23. winston tied debe are rg with four td passes on opening day. bo did it against the falcons. 281 yards and four td's to four receivers. look for jameis to have a break yoit season. a breakout season. gabbert gets a start tomorrow night against the rams on a game you can see here. chip kelly says from the day he got to the bay he impressed kelly with the way he

tom: new york, bloomberg "surveillance." what a wonderful day yesterday, scarlet fu and myself at cantor fitzgerald's wonderful charity day for we were going in, the manning brothers were going out. joe girardi walked in, the manager of the new york yankees. girardi had to face the los angeles dodgers at yankee stadium. symbolism. they are in the other league so the dodgers rarely come back to new york. it is lost in translation. in transatlantic translation, but a big deal last night, the l.a. dodgers playing in new york. i am tom keene in new york, guy johnson in london. our first word news, here sebastian. sebastian: the cease-fire in syria civil war appears to be holding. groups say there have been only minor violation. the truce was broken by the u.s. and russia. at the end of seven days they will coordinate to attack islamic state and al qaeda forces in syria. hillary clinton says she did not disclose her pneumonia diagnosis because she did not think it was a big deal. video on sunday appears to show her almost stumbling as she was help into a van. she told cnn after she had some water she felt better and they promised

fitzgerald grabbing it. >> and new england's position for a position through the uprights. the patriots win 23-21. >> the patriots now have three games to go before tom brady returns from his four-game deflate-gate suspension. but have no fear. new england fans, he's staying sharp. >> here's the proof. it's a picture posted by his wife. that's brady throwing a pass to his super model wife. gisele says, don't worry, guys, what do you think, did she make the catch? >> she did the perfect catch. her form looked -- >> fully laid out. extension was great. >> there's a debate going on in new england. >> oh? >> not necessarily whether or not there's a quarterback controv controversy, but who is hotter? >> oh. >> tom brady or his replacement on the right. >> i'm not sure brady thought he would be up for that competition. so that, of course, is jimmy garoppolo. apparently in some of the blogs he's been known to distract teammates by being alarmingly good looking. he's been known to be good looking in public, and a one of his other scouting reports, he's too good looking. >> good looking in public? garoppolo asking if gisele has any friends. >> gisele might be

fitzgerald plays mays, 100th career touchdown. bad snap. new england takes the game. another close one 23-21. after the victory tomosted photo, angry birds and using to red birds. brady's wife giselle playing catch. suspension costing brady $235,000. wraps up the third set against the defending champion novac jock djokovic, first u.s. open, third grand slam and get this at age 31 he is the oldest men's champion in 46 years. just as about nine games were kicking off yesterday, espn fantasy app crashed right before kickoff. what if you're trying to make late-roster changes, they identified a back data and did not impact data or team's leagues or rosters. you have to be tracking out. maria: dig deal. kevin: life goes on. you had to wait till the last minute to do changes -- jared: special for sunday. two more games tonight, new los angeles rams in san francisco, seven of yesterday's 12 games, fourth-quarter comebacks and the first time ever in week one four games decided by only one point. great indication. maria: we were watching the giants and that was close. jared: i tweeted this yesterday. are we suppose today co