Provisions to fund theund government but all of them would infringe on obamas o healthcare law. Hundreds of thousands of tourist visit washington and the monuments but the Government Shutdown shuted down many popularr attractions. Many tourists are visiting National Park sites anyway. Anyw cirn gray houston went out to check out the shutdowns impact on tourism. Reporter make nos no mistakes. We traveled across country from san diego hoping to see our National Parks and sure enough, everything shutdown. Reporter that didnt stop him and his wife fromom trying to see the sites. Theyve been ridinging motorcycles and have been riding bikes to get around. Et you went back to link on memorial so that is disappointing. Reporter not disappointing enough from keepingth rongs of tourist from getting as close as they possible do. The barricades deliberately pitched aside. You dont you know the park is closed. I think its wonderful. I think its the people being upset with our elected officials. Reporter there wasre w something seerine about the scenery along the mall. Its, we have this lovely woman here to be your lawful wife. Reporter it was aor perfect setting forte a wedding. You saved my life. You know, i promised to always love you and be devoted. Reporter dedoe and ken came from goalsboro, North Carolina to be married. When their wedding venue,theue, office yaint arranged an outdoor solution albeit in a different space. D a lot of people are being effected by our governments use or ms. Use of the miss use of the powers. Reporter ask this Street Vendor how business isssi and she has a twowordowo accident. Reporter very slow. Thete vendor who normally works next door to here took the day o. Karen gray houston, fox 5 morning news. M the National Park service says its monuments are closed. It shuttered about 400 National Parks including the grand canyon and the statueatue of liberty. A lot of places you dont think about. Thi you take your vacations, those are shutdown as well. Ell weve plenty ahead. Fox 5 morning news at 4 30 starts now. Announcer this is fox 5 morning news. Live look outside at 4 29 on this thursday morning. Orni rather warm start to your day. It was a little warm yesterday. Were going to call it warm, not hot of the we can call it hot or warm and hospital what are way you want to go with that. So were going to see how things are going to shake out today. Im wisdom martin. Im sara simmons. Tucker hi. Been pretty nice. Ty it has been. Has how would you describe it, yesterday . Very warm. Very warm. Ok. Not quite crossing to hot but very warm. All right. Igh well go with it. I agree. Its not hot. When it gets hot ill turn on the air. Yesterday i didnt turn on the air. Th im impressed youve been holding back. Ack mine is on an automatic. Now we know that our airconditioning situation. Lets get right to the temperatures. Dont need thehe airconditioning early mornings. Open windows, let a lot of the nice air in. 58 out at dulles. 63 b. W. I. Marshal so weve gotten more comfortable overnight. More of the same. There will be more cloud than yesterday. Weve moisture, tropical moisture steaming up from theom gulf of mexico. That bringing cloud cover outer to the west. Some of that will get in here h although with High Pressure pr right overhead its not going to be by any means a terribly cloudy day. Partly sunny and hot once again. 87. Of sunshine. Very warm, 87 degrees. Getting closer to 90. Yes. I almost think were going to hit it. Its possible. It getting close. Thanks, tuck. , we begin today with day three of the Government Shutdown. President obama did meet withidm congressional leaders but it seems there was little progressit made. Today the president heads he to rocksville, maryland to a Construction Company to talkpa about an how extended shutdown will hurt small businesses. Weve more. Reporter Republican HouseSpeaker John Boehner b spoke first after the white house meeting. In times like this the t American People expect theirthe leaders to come together andgeth to try toed find ways to resolve their differences. The president reiterated one more time tonight that he h will not fee negotiate. Reporter House Republicans proposed a conference on a c. R. C but the senate led by democrats voted against it tuesday. The idea of a conference up again during the white housewhi talks. We have appointed conferees to work with our o senate colleagues. Its time for them to appoint conferees. All were asking for here is a discussion and fairness foress the American People under obamacare. Reporter then Top Democrats in it both theh house and the senate appeared before the cameras. The Senate Majority leader m says he offered to go to conference, but got a no from boehner. He said, if you have to talk about discretionaryetio spending, well talk about agriculture, well talk about parks. Rks. Well talk about healthcare. Heal well talk about anything youut want to talk about. He says, no, if all i want to do is go to confers on a shortterm c. R. We have the debt ceilingng staring us in the face. He reporter the president re made it clear he wont makeke concessions on his healthcareis law if it is attached to my spending plan. Democrats are demanding ading clean bill. Woe heard from the president earlier. President obama we have a situation right now whereba its john boehner, the speaker of the house puts a bil hl on the floor to reopen the government at current funding lesms so we can thenen negotiate on a real budgetal that allows us to stop governing from crisis to crisis, itll pass. L reporter will thomas, fox 5 morning news. X 5 earlier the house of representatives voted to let the d. C. Government functionment during the shutdown. Lawmakers approved the bill. The Senate Passed a bill to to fund the National Institutes of health. It allows Cancer Research to continue. The head of the agency ag estimates the n. I. H. s h hospital of last resort will be turning away 200 patients a week, 30 of them children. Senator harry reid under foyer after comments he made about the funding. A reporter asked why the senate wont approve a mini spending bill. Here is part of his response. If you can help one child who has cancer why wont you y do it . Why would we want to do that . It i have 1,100 people at the air force base that aree staying home. This they have a few problems pr of their own. To have someone of your intelligence suggest a thing im asking a question. The senators remarks ig knighted a social media frenzy and mostly all of the comments were negative. Egat one person wrote children with cancer do harry. The moment harry reid lost the budget battle. Senator reed responded tweeting republicans are in in such desperate straits theyve resorted to accusing me of not carrying about kids with cancer. Shameful, period. Erio veterans of the greatest generation defied the Government Shutdown to tow the world war 2 memorial. Many National Landmarks l are closed during the Government Shutdown, but onun, b wednesday the bar yirs werere pulled back for veterans who boarded honor flights for a second straight day. A lat of lawmakers taking t nart what really tooments a boisterous act of civil dises obedience. Why cant they get together and do something . Thin stef, instead of fighting. This country isnt used to individuals, you know,w, shutting things down. Own were used to lifting things thi up. The world war ii memorial remains closed to the general public but the National ParkService Veterans will be allowed to enter as part of their First Amendment rights. En dm the shutdown is not stopping people from going to other memorials. One veteran said he wasntt going to be denied and pushedhed aside a barrier to see the vietnam wall. A number of other tourists are doing the same thing. People are fed up. Im here. Im going to see that monument. Our government of theov Government Shutdown continues allt morning but next were talking about anotherr monument and local policecal hope you will be able to identify two vandals who knocked it over. The new video straight ahead. Tr ai ag church trip turns deadly when a bus crashes. Find out what happens hereppen coming up. His suspence novels had former president s talking about author tom clancy who passed away this week. You will get a chance to check out his final work. Or details later this hour. Time now is 4 37. [ phone ringing ] [ daughter ] hi mom. Hey honey, the trips great, very relaxing. Are you sure you cant make it . But you come every year you could be playing bingo right now woooo and theres movie night you love movies [ laughs ] sorry honey, cant hear you bad connection. Love you [ laughs ] [ male announcer ] bold flavors for the bold hearted progresso heart healthy soup. Welcome back, 4 39. We have an update on the Deadly Police involvedolve shooting that we brought you yesterday morning. Prince georges county policeo say the suspect was not armed. Were told the officer who fired the shot is a sevenyear veteran of the force. He made multiple commands for the ran to stop running before he opened fire. The officer is on routine administrative leave during thisra investigation. Two people are under arrestarre this morning in connection with a stun gun robbery in northwest d. C. Michael moofer and david arbton are accused of using a stun gun to rob two people ofope their bikes. The this happened early yesterdayy morning. Police are searching for a third suspect and trying to anything out if theyrehey connected to previous stun gun robberies that weve reported. Also in the district twowo vandals are on the run and Police Hope Surveillance Video will help find them. The suspects toppled a large stone monument back in september. Its just behind the supreme court. The 850 pound granite monument sits in front of a christian outreach ministry. If you think you know whow these two men are givee d. C. Police a call. The game will go on. O were going to tell you whatyou change could make this big weekends rivalry in annapolis take place. Imagine seeing this in your neighborhood. School buses rolling through stop signs in maryland. Hear from the man who shot the video and how the schoole is responding. First we want to talk to tucker barnes. For everybody going to school going to feel more like summertime. Ime. The heat wave it continues. Co julie will be here at some point too and have trafficffic after the break. [ mom ] in my family, were big cereal lovers. So we just look for this g. cause General Mills makes over 40 yummy flavors that are 130 calories or less per serving. And theyre packed with vitamins and minerals. From lucky charms to cheerios. Over 40 cereals. 130 calories or less. [ laughs ] [ female announcer ] hey ladies. You love it. Youve got to have it. Cinnamon toast crunch, cause that cinnamon and sugar is so irresistible. Everybody craves those crazy squares. ® he loves me. He loves me not. He loves me. He loves me not. He loves me thats right. [ mom ] warm and flaky in 15, everyone loves pillsbury grands [ girl ] make dinner pop so i should probably get the last roll. Yeah but i practiced my bassoon. [ mom ] and i listened. [ brother ] i can do this. [ imitates robot ] everyone deserves ooey, gooey, pillsbury cinnamon rolls. Make the weekend pop. Because all these whole grains arent healthy unless you actually eat them multigrain cheerios. Also available in delicious peanut butter. Healthy never tasted so sweet. Well take something tasty and healthy. Must be the honey theres a party going on in your cereal bowl os can help lower cholesterol oh why does it taste so great . Hey must be the honey welcome back, fox 5we morning news, time is 4 43. Good news. Military academy footballacad teams will be allowed to play this weekend despite the government Government Shutdown. Ve includes saturdayss Navy Air Force game and the matchup between army and boston college. The Defense Department temporarily suspended the game but allowed them to go on since theyre paid withwith for independence funds. The decision only affects this weekends games and future games will depend onepen the duration of the shutdown. I didnt know there was as i didnt realize that either. The caps, we know theyre playing. The caps face the flames in their home opener. It will be a chance for fans to get up close and personal look at one of the new members of the team. His team, he is a center named mikeally grabovski. The puck drops at the verizon vr center at 7 00 pm. Also the ideal torch that the captains carried the other day in greece, going to be on display aswell as the olympicic outfit as well. Wont it be nice to get a picture of both of them that. Thm would be nice. That would be great. I was thinking about that, heat, has to be thinking this is pretty cool. P i know he is like a superstar he flew halfway around thelf world to do it. D he is wearing like a heavy outfit but its winter time. Everybody else is running around in shorts. They probably had it picked out for him. Maybe he had extra padding. He is a hockey player. He is used to having a lot of excess materials on. Mat no doubt about t. You are sweating today if you are headed down to pes have to verizon center, anywhere. Highs back in the mid to upper 80s no sign of any changes here. It is be early next week and back to fall. Warmth through the weekend. There is your headline. 80s through the weekend. Both saturday and sunday high temperatures well into the 80s so the warm temperatures is here to stay for the time being. 59 this morning. You are one of the cooler spots. Lots of 60s parked acrosspark the area. 66 in washington, d. C. 56 in annapolis, 63 baltimore. 50s north and west. 59 gaithersburg, more of the same. Weve High Pressure overheadress and that will keep things quiet. Any changes from yesterday . A little more in the way of cloudiness. We do have clouds out to the west. A lot of moisture streaming north here from the northernthe gulf of mexico. Some of these clouds will spill out no our region lateron today so you know partly to mostly sunny. Os i think it will be morere clouds than sun but more clouds than yesterday when wehen had pretty much a cloudfree day. We have a cold front. Same one weve been talking about and still looking atin the tropical moisture, perhaps Tropical Development dev this weekend down in the northern gulf. It will bring us a good chance of some rain. 87 today. Tod plenty of sup. S another very warm afternoon. A temperatures a good 10 to 155 degrees above normal. 56 tonight. Few clouds, that is mild for this time of year. There is your sevendayy forecast. [laughter. ] u doing overer there . Having some issues. Well go 80s back to 70s with shom showers around early next week. Could be a good soaking rain if you get the tropicalr moisture pulled up into the frontal system. That is a good reminder, my plants are starting toting look sorry again. [laughter] ok. Ok thanks. Lets say good morning to julie. Hello. He has had a wardrobe malfunction, were having computer problems. Pu they implement a fire wallir and i cant pull up cameras. We know the fire wall isis working then. We do. The were doing our best this. Is the beltway at 214, Central Avenue this. Nt is where they had overnightight construction. All of that is cleared now. D lanes are open. Op traffic now flowing freely in i each direction between andrews, college park andand green belt. You will find lanes are open right now. Ow. Quiet drive on the beltwaybelt traveling between collegeen park and bethesda. This happens to be southbound 270. No issues to report for folks continuing out to rockville. Ockv light traffic volume. Leaving New Hampshire avenue through silver springs, both 95 and 295 at speed. 50 quiet. No problems to report here on the beltway traveling to and from 50 headed over to 95. This is a check of your traffic. Thank you. Yo julie. Look at this horrific multicar accident on a tennessee highway. It has left at least eight people dead. De Officials Say some of the deceased are part of a Senior Citizens group from a group on a bus trip. The bus they were on blew a tire causing it to go into g the immediaten hitting a s. U. V. And a tractor trailer. Ra the drive ofct the tractorve trailer also o died. At least 14 our people were taken other people were tape to hospital. A potentially dangerous situation in prince georges counting. School buses filled w running stop signs. Irt was caught on camera at elk avenue and crawford street. Parent say they hope Video Evidence will help this stop. Here is audrey barns. Reporter tory was waiting to pick up his daughter when the sight of a caravan of buses caught his attention. After the attendant released the buses where the Second Police car was, they came around. Ar and went straight through stop sign here without stopping. Reporter he said he and other parents reported it to School Officials but it keptep happening so he recorded it. This is the video he shot on his cell phone. Of the bus after bus blowing past the stop sign at crawford street and the the drivers on crawford streetwfo have the right of way. W making this intersection even more dangerous. The community then you have students walking from school. Youve parents walking toal school to pick their kids up then you have students drivingth selves to andves from school. If you get blind sided by ay bus with kid on the bus that can be a serious problem notrobl only for those walking butking those on the bus as well. Reporter another thing that makes the intersection i so dangerous a tall hedges. Luke posted his video on youtube and within hoursth we got this statement from the School System. Were currently investigating this situation. On. All prince georges Public School bus drivers are required to follow andto practice all maryland state traffic law. Luke was back out with his camera phone today. And what a difference a day makes. Ef bus stopped at the stopp sign. Were told one of the two people monitoring them is a driving instructor. In the other from the School Systems department oftme transportation. After we recorded the footage something was done. As reporter the School System encourages people to keep their eyes on their 1250 buses. S lucas can keep his eyes open. Ye i will be keeping an eye on it for the concern of the o neighborhood and the community. Reporter audrey barnes, fox 5 news. That is a wild stuff that he caught. Things that you wouldou never expect to happen period of time, happening right there. Also on the video shot by mr. Lucas there were cars that blew through the same stop sign. Something about the stop sign. Its right around a school, drives got to slow down. Stop. T to stop at the stop sign. S when we come back remember bestselling author tom clancy . You know the name. Na the month long trial pitting Michael Jacksons family against a. E. Go. The jurys ruling and wellll have reaction right after the break. Time now is 4 52. Very relaxing. Are you sure you cant make it . But you come every year you could be playing bingo right now woooo and theres movie night you love movies [ laughs ] sorry honey, cant hear you bad connection. Love you [ laughs ] [ male announcer ] bold flavors for the bold hearted progresso heart healthy soup. Too small. Too soft. Too tasty. [ both laugh ] [ male announcer ] introducing progressos new creamy alfredo soup. Inspired by perfection. [ female announcer ] at 100 calories, not all food choices add up. Some are giant. Some not so giant. When managing your weight, bigger is always better. Ho ho ho green giant 4 54. Out in los angeles a jury rejects claims Michael Jacksons concert promoter was neglect in hiring theg doctor. The jury said dr. Murray was hired by a. E. G. But was not unable to do his job. Question number one, dide, a. E. G. Lie answer, yes. Yes number two. Was conwas dr. Conrad murrayay unfit or income pent to perform the work for which he was hired. Hi answer, no. The Jackson Family was seeking almost 2 billion but b the verdict means theyrethey getting no money from a. E. G. Also this morning bestselling author tom clancy has died. The publisher said he passeda away at a hospital in baltimore tuesday night. The hunt for red october, oct and patriot games made him the most widely read and military novelist of his time. The latest novel command authority is slated to be released in december. In the cause of death hasntath been released. He was 66 years old. You know its interesting. I didnt read any of thef books but i did see those movies. I saw those movies as well. Loved them. I still have a lot of them on dvd. When you walk in storesn you will see some of the books that he has written and see his name, tom clancy. He is a household name. H ao big deal. A group of high schoolf students are trying to geto one of hollywoods hottest pop stars to perform at their home coming. This is a video adaptation of katy perrys new song roar. The school is just one of of self schools nationwide whoho entered the competition. Perry will perform at the winning schools homecoming. Student tried to include ass many kids as possible in the video. Tried to incorporate the the whole student body and weve a specialized parts for the drumline and sign languagegn club but the lip singer is madison who is an incredible dancer. She was the Perfect Choice for the performance in this. Very cool. Whitman high school winsins perry will purchase as their october 25th home comcelebration. This isco exciting. Cant wait to see who wins. See how the schools try to outdo each other. O i cant imagine how many schools are entering. A lot. Straight ahead in in three words how would you describe the Government Shutdown . This is going to be interesting, our coverage continues and the house passes bills for temporarytemp funding but its just not enough. Harsh words coming from bothrom sides when we come back. Hey lena, what ya looking for . Well, youve found delicious if you wanna go and fly with me its buzz the bee on your tv oh how did i get this way . Hey must be the honey it is so honey swagalish so much crunch, can you handle this . The party in the bowl dont stop hey must be the honey hey must be the honey must be the honey announcer this is fox 5 morning news. Good morning. Orn were coming up here on 5 00n on this thursday morning. Its october 3, were goingoin into another day of the Government Shutdown, the partial Government Shutdown. Gove were going to take a being look at that a little closerit this morning as we continue throughout the morning hours. Good morning, im sara simmons. Im wisdom martin, time to t talk about the traffic. Traf were going to talk about weather and tucker barnes. Tuck going to be very warm. Keep talking. Am i allowed to talk yesterday . It will be a radio version. Adio yes. Ok. There i am. Hi. Good morning. Very warm today. Mid to upper 80s later this afternoon. Is that owl you got . That is all you need. Yeah. We waited to get you on camera. To show you ahow lot of maps and numbers, but but lets go to the newspapers currently at reagan national. The temperature is 65 now. Back to 65 so you know, these temperatures more typical of late august, early se