Over at the heritage foundation. Ag he says that u. S. Security. Sur officials are right to nowht tow place a new emphasis onha stadiums and ball parks. P the reason he says, it is clear that many analysts to many analysts that thesests facilities have not ramped uppe their security like nationalna airports have in recent years. A it isnt like going to the t. S. A. Screening, you know, atwa dulles or at reagan. This is going to the nationalsas game. This is going fedex field. Ie. Thats the challenge. Its the shear number ofhef people and the fact in itst not a he secured facility like the airport. Ai rp reporter . Eporter . Reporter the concerneporr e these teams tell that you say they are well aware of. Now, one local law enforcementnt told us the nfl in particulartiu has taken steps in recenten years to change the entry ery procedures into nfl stadiums. Ta they are also aware that manyway people have not been to ateen regular season game in many months. Mo the redskins will open their season monday night and people e are being urged if y attending the game to go to g the redskins web site andite a familiarize yourself withf wh these procedures which have changed in the last several sev years. 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 dont have any leads. Have aeads fox5s alexandria limon isimon i live with the latest on theest n victim and the search for his killer. Ller. Alex. Reporter thats right,s rig that 17yearold 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 didnt 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 17yearold 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. Maurice was a good kid. Very respectful. Respe was working. Its sad, very sad. Ad and its sad that someoneteo would take a life. Heartbreaking. Down at this end its it mostly family oriented andd a its just scary to thinko thi theres kids around hereids oun running around with weapons. Weo reporter now, his School Principal released a Statement Today that said in part, maurice was very well liked l by all who knew him. H he always had a smile on hisn hi face and was willing to helplp around the School Community atmt any time. Maurice attended brightenderi Alternative High School inl i alexandria. Now, we did also speak to his they are too distraught to speak on camera they told us u but they did rehe lease ae a written statement saying they sn are hurting. Theyre asking for privacy andca they just wanted to say they will remember maurice for his h kind heart, his warm spiritpiri and his loving nature. Nat theyre asking for anyone withh information on the shooting that killed him to contact Fairfax County policee investigators because again at this point they have veryy little information. Now, a few of the neighbors in this area told them they heard a car drive off shortly after a the shots were fired but unfortunately nobody was able a to provide a description ofiptif that vehicle. Le so, again, if you knowif y anything, youre asked to yre please contact the homicide homd unit with Fairfax County police. Po reporting live in lorton,e inoro alexandria limon, fox5 localoc news. News. The Fairfax County parknt p employee charged with stabbing a c wedding caterer to death was leased from jail today on bond. Nd. Accused of stabbing tyonnenn jones last month after aner event at chantilly park. Ar Police Believe the two were arguing over chairs. Chair bonds lawyer claims it wasit self dems he is charged with wit Second Degree murder. Ur federal prosecutors moving po to drop the corruption chargesis against Bob Mcdonnell and his wife. Ns prosecutors will not retry mcdonnell. The Supreme Court overturnedveue his corruption conviction lastnl month deciding unanimouslynimo that mcdonnells actions thens not necessarily violate vlate federal bribery laws. Iber laws. The Justice Department says itie made the decisionnt after carefully considering theer Supreme Courts recent ruling. D. C. s attorney general is refusing to turn over evidence e thats been used in court to convict drunk drivers. Unk iver the evidence is recorded byy d. C. Police officers on theircer body cameras. Body and over the past fewas f months fox5 has repeatedlyeadly asked to see five videos usedeoe to convict four drivers and acquit another. But the attorney general has refu city law. In city law. Paul wagner joins us with the ue latest on this one. Paul. Reporter hey shawn andeporrh tony. When evidence is presented inntn a court of through a judge orgeo jury its generally consideredsi Public Record two decisions byoe federal appeals courts haverts a said as much but d. C. Attorney general karl racine says we have no right to see thel ka videos shown in open court because of the districts law l governing access to police pic body camera footage. Foota hes told us get it from the police. In the last several months prosecutors with the Attorney Generals Office have been using d. C. Police body cameraveb footage to make their cases against drunk drivers int drundr court. A new tool to use after years aa of relying on results fromrom breathalyzers. Field sobriety tests and the officers observations. Obse but when we asked to see the videos used to convict fourvictu drivers and acquit another, wete were told no. N in response to a foil we filed with his Office Attorney general karl racine citedine d. C. s official code as thes of reason for not turningic themnie over saying a request for a for Body Worn Camera recording may m only be submitted to the metropolitan policeopolan p department. A position defense attorneyseor David Benowitz says he finds hei difficult to understand. T unde. The Attorney Generals Office their pheosit aion on ths i think isn on just incorrect. Once again, once a document n lab released publicly or a video has been released publicly, it is in the public pi domain and i dont think they the legally i dontan think the office of thee of t attorney general has a leg to to stand and and those documentsen should be disclosed or those videos should be disclosed. D reporter he has years of o experience defending driversdind accused of dwi and knows how powerful Video Evidence couldnco be. Oh, those videos i think are Game Changers because change youre now able to see without without someones s interpretation or someone trying to remember facts that may have happened monthsth before. Before youre able to see in what was going on. Ng reporter benowitz also a says being forced to get theet t footage from d. C. Police. Raises new questions andnd concerns. There is a hcouge chance thaa what youre going to get from the metropolitan policetan department is going to be entirely different than whathana you would get if you saw video o as it was presented in courtrt because when its presented in i court its got to be presentrese the without redaction withoutho pixilation that would hyden at the in most cases. Thin mos thats because its public and its for the purpose of airing n out the facts at trial. Reporter heres why. In the regulations posted on mpds web site it says foott damage turned over in a foyer ia request may be provided in redacted form. For we requested an interview with t mr. Racine today but we were told he was unavailable. Vailabl. His Office Released this t statement when part the statement goes on tos ot say the ag has done everything h it can to make sure the requested records are in mpds d glands why do we wander to seeds these videos anyway. Reporter well, basically because we want to see how theyre presented, how is the te judge in these cases seeing see this driver behind the wheelhe e of a car . Are they showing it i because the drivers slurring his or her words . Are we seeing the field sobriety test . Is it what they have said . Its recording, also. You can hear whats being s beig were these prosecutors using these videos. Its a powerful toole andth wew think the public has a right a g to know and see what theyrehaty doing and how theyre usingyreg it. Thanks very much paul. Thank you paul. All right. Every once in awhile you come ty across a headline that doesntt quite sound right. Qu like this one. Ne where raccoons have causedeau u. S. Park police to be forced fe out of their headquarters. What . Well explain, yeah. Okay, heres another one. No a sting he key situation atuatin the inner harbor. The inner h what led to a fish kill thatll t left hundreds of thousands ofhof fish dead in the inner harbor. B. Hey, mike. Hey, shawn. Hot september day recordptemday setting at dulles airport. Airrt were in for a steamy ste september night. Ser n bad news the worst is yet toeto come. Ill let you know when wewn could potentially see record red setting temperatures here inn d. C. Coming up right after the break. Stick with us. Fox5 at 6 00 will be right back. Z23wpz z5yz y23wpy y5yy the u. S. Park Police Forced out of their headquarters by some unwanted guests. Were talking about a family of raccoons. Little critt headquarters in southwest back in june. Jun more than 20 employees wereyeesr forced to move. A professional crew was cre brought in to trap and remove rm the raccoons. Tacco heres how officials discovered they were living inei the building. Bldin they were using our attic out space as a bathroom and some a s of that made its way through the ceiling tile. And so that affected our work wr space. Sp it happened once and we a thought okay, fluke, maybemayb its condensation from the airir compressor, you know, we kw, didnt know and then progressively it got worse and we hired a trapper to come in and we found a family of fivef living in the building. Ing. Wow. Police say the family ofy raccoons was taken to the Eastern Shore where they wereore set free. The good news is the u. S. Park police had planned on moving m to another building anyway. Ny the raccoons just sped up thatd plan. My goodness. Dns. Yeah. Can you imagine though for io awhile not knowing what waswi wa going on. Going it can be unpleasant. Npasan it can be dangerous, too. ,oo because raccoons are notecau afraid of humans. Human and they can carry rabies. Re all sorts of things, yeah. S g now to an ongoing mystery. Y hundreds of dead fish spottedfio in the water near the innerhenn harbor in baltimore. Foxs Kathleen Carnes reports on whats causing this new phenomenon. En reporter boats are not aot the only things flowing aroundid the marinas between canton andan fels point. Three there, four, five, fiv, six, seven, 89. Ev, you cant even begin to count. Ot clearly something is off to to kill these fish. He f reporter as people pass. Wow theres a dead crab. Dea. Reporter its hard not to notice. Looks like theres a lot of k oil. Theres dead fish, somes de debris. Would neverould nev recommend that anybody eatd anything from the harbor. Rom thr the baltimore water harbor h water keepers have been have ben alarmed since last week. It was really one of talhe worst algae blooms ive ever seen in the harbor. Reporter intense rain sewage overflows and extremevero hot weather may for the algae he bloom whichbl takes all the oxygen in thehe water and kills the fish. The Maryland Department Natural Resources has been b notified about this fish kill but the best way to find outind what happened is by getting itt and testing it. Theres really no way ofs ro knowing whats going to happensh from here on outer. Here on outr it could get worse. It cou we dont really know. Lly k reporter meanwhile there are federal mandates to cleanram this water. Th supposedly its supposed to be swimmable by 2020. 2 reporter for now these environmentalists recommend dont eat the fish from here. T t doesnt look good. The opening of the smithsonians new nationalewio museum of africanamerican history is going to be a realoie party. We have a closer look at whats in store for the museums first visitors. Nations capitol rolling out the red carpet for people from allhe r over world. R d. The Opening National museum of africanamerican historypeicn and culture is just aame fewusa weeks away and we are learningrn more about the grand matt auckland is on the aucd is National Mall with the new details. Reporter and a big weekend is just over two weeksks away. Now, the opening ceremoniesemon even that weekend to geto g inside the museum, thosem, tho tickets have been handed outd but there is going to be so bso much more for the peoplee really coming from all over the world to celebrate. Ebrate out here in front of thet he museum and then over here ine front of the washingtonto monument, there are going toe ao be concerts, theres going to gg be readings, history lessons, lo so much for people to enjoy. Enj we are learning the president and mrs. Obama will be therel be for the opening ceremonies onn saturday september 24th. They will be joined by former fr first couple president georgerge w. Bush and former first lady laura bush. A bush. Supreme court chief justice j john roberts will also attend. A the entire weekend has beenaseen planned for those in town to celebrate. The freedom sounds a communityma celebration will take placelace from friday september 2 until the 25th. 5t the festival will include music, dance, oral historystor activities and two big concerts on saturday anddand sunday evenings. E have you gotten your passes yet . Well, you might be out beu of luck. Because there was so much 90 getting those passes the smithsonian offered extended hours and timed passes fortimepo those wanting to get a scheduled tore of the museum. Oe but we he checked the web sitehe today around 2 oclock and found the next openings, get this, october 25th and 26th. So, there were tickets tkets available earlier thiser afternoon. Af as we said tot on the 25th and5a 26th but then we checked backke on the web site, around 5 oclock today, Nothing Available until november. Novem on the National Mall, mattl, mat ackland fox5 local news. New im just looking at januarytn at this point. Poi. Yeah, i mean, i have to say s i didnt act on this and, yeah, maybe ill get in around christmastime but we need tosti act on it. But on we need to do hold on mike. Mik well get back to you. Y we can do it after the c show. An d okay, all right, all right. R [laughter]ight, ti there. All weve got some septembere ser heat were dealing with. W man. M. Sweltering outside. Utside like its july. E it jul you step out and youre your like okay i want to go to the t pool but the pool is closed but splash parks are opened. That is true. Ks a t i heat emergency in effect n d. C. They have extra centers openedd for cooling centers. En one thing we dont have thateha we did have yesterday was allaya those thunderstorms thatms rolled through. Its quiet tonight. Ight. While we had clouds during the 5 oclock hour looks like were starting to see a breakars in that cloud cover and starting to getin back into thee sunshine here. Hine were staying warm. Ar temperature right now here in d. C. , 94 degrees. Degrees. September sizzle going to continue. Thats what were dealingptoat with. Weng thats your headline. You h not just today but for the next couple of days, 90s are a sticking around. Aro heres your temperature today. T 98 at reagan. This is the hottest septemberepb day weve had in six years. Yeas 96 at dulles that was as that w record. 96 at bwi. B here in d. C. 98 on saturda will break a record for us. Us. So, well keep an eye on those temperatures. 94 current number here inber hen washington at 6 oclock on o september 8th. 90 at gaithersburg, 92 at dulles, 91 frederick, 91 westminster. Miter. That heat index still in the triple digits. 100 degrees washington, 95t9 gaithersburg. He 105 in frederick,rick congratulations, you win. Win go to the pool. L. 101 at culpeper, 101 at01 a fredericksburg as well. Asl. Its hot and humid outside. Outi theres that cloud cover thatovt came through at 5 00 driftingg farther south so Southern Maryland and Northern Neck of no virginia seeing it now. Inia seei here in d. C. Generally dealing i with clearer conditions buts you see more clouds north and ad west. We well have breaks of clearclear skies and cloud cover. Skied were watching a frontalg a froa system off to the north and to a west. Depending on just how close itt gets tomorrow will depend onpe just how strong ouron o thunderstorms tomorrowthundersto afternoon could be or whetherrme we see any at all. 8 oclock tonight heres yoursou futurecast showing that tt those clear skies and thene skie clouds are back as we approachac the late evening and Early Morning hours for your friday. R. Now watch the front. Nt as we move into your fridayr frd morning lots of sunshine here h will heat it back up into the 90s. s. Front kind of stalls though. Ll 9 00 a. M. Tomorrow we work oursr way into the afternoon. Fter by 7 oclock tomorrow nightro its trying to approach ourh region and certainly thein the mountains of West Virginia westa have a maybe the panhandle of maryland and portions ofland p pennsylvania will have a good chance of thunderstorms but here in d. C. We just might jusmh keep it dry because that frontto is going to aboutface ande a head back off to the north. Th ones it does so its actually ay going to bring another upsurge e of heat and humidity from theidr south and by saturday were sday looking at temperatures evenresn hotter than tomorrow afternoon. For your planner tonight, 92ight by 7 oclock, 88 by 9 oclock, o for 11 oclock 86 degrees. We work our way into tomorrow. O your highs maybe a degree ore two than today. N t but still very hot. H 96 washington, 92 leonardtown. Tn 90 annapolis. Its very rare we see 90s all a over this map heading intoeadi o september. Friday night live dont forget about tomorrow, tony perkinser and this guy who got a haircut i today will be down in rockville town square live ative 5 00 and 6 00. Im leaving a chance of anc o thunderstorm in there but i dont think chances are thatthia great. What is a guarantee is that it g will be hot, 93 uaderagrees. Ee quick look at the weekend. Week. High pressure staying off thesse coast on saturday. Sda thats going to keep the upsurge of southerly flow and heat and humidity into our s area through the day onn saturday near record highs. Theres that cold front moving n through late saturday nightig into sunday. Into s that will cool us down for there weekend. Heres your fox5 accuweather 7day forecast. 96 tomorrow. Omorw. 98 possibly record tying ong saturday. Then we get a little bit of a break. Brea sunday 87. Monday 85. 85. Little bit of an upsurge next week. 88 on tuesday. 88 o tue 92 on wednesday. Sd. But then here comes fall. Sure. E. 80 degrees. Sure. Well see. Wow. Well see what happens onl e fridaywhat then. T all right. [laughter]laug hold off thoseold thunderstorms for tomorrow. Tomo yes. Yes. Definitely. Should be a good night. Come out and see us. Were goi cng have a lot of funn yeah, well have fun. Okay, all right. Kay, all rig well get something t drink. All right. I didnt say alcoholic beverages. Dont make assumptions. Dnell be right back. [laughter] very excited about this tomorrow. Taking the show on the road tomorrow evening. Join us for friday night live with fox t5. For fridait fox you can join me and mike thomas. Oh, yeah. He got a haircut. He got a ill try to get one. Try to get. Well be live at rockvilleille town square tasting food fromooo local restaurants kicking off a concert. A. Whats the name of the gland ruth thee and the wranglers. Ler. Stop by for the concert or to say hi. Hi. If you cant make it therean mae watch tomorrow from 5 00 toto 7 00 right here on fox5. Fox and early tomorrow morning. W. Ill be on good day. C the band will be on tomorrow morning 10 oclock hour. Cloc h check us out. Check us out all right. A see you next. Five at 5 at 6 30. Just passing on by. On by. Donald trump Hillary Clinton clt the closest thing weve seen sen to a debate making the the argument both of them why they y should be the next president. Ex. If you didnt see it last night well show you some ofu it in aso minute. Mn as you can tell from thefrot rundown on the side of youride f screen this is what people areiw talking about on 5 at 6 30. 0. Let us know was think. Thi tweet us throughout the show. Use five at 6 30. 0. Well share them with youhemo in just a moment. First lets talk about that sneak peek of the debates debes coming up. Mi u donald trump Hillary Clintonruma on the same stagery c just not t the same time. Uhhuh. New York City Forum focusedcf on National Security who is i more qualified to be commander inmm chief. After heavy criticism of lasttcm nights debate tonight clinton t took no time firing backac against donald trump. Republicans are are just in n a terrible dilemma tryingryg support a totally unqualifieded nominee. Mi i have no sympathy for themhe its their nominee but i amm not going to tolerate them t
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