Served tour of duty in afghanistan. The city is safe and the suspect is dead and we can move on to healing. Reporter with, investigator, now believe 25 year old Micah Johnson acted alone according a out thursdayl deadly policeolic ambush shooting a dozen policeoc officers and two civilians ultimately killing five of the officers. This was a mobile shooterhoot that had written manifestos onto how to shoot and move, shoot and move. Reporter ambush coming at the tail end of a a protest over two black men recently killed by police. Police ended up killing johnson. A search of his mothers homes where johnson lived outside dallas turned up an arson nail of weapons including bomb makinb materials rifles ammunition andn bullet proof vest s Police Johnson told them he was upsetps about re Center Police shooted of black men and he wanted to kill white office s in dallas Joe Waldman Fox news. Meantime there were morether protest across the nation more are expected throughout the weekend. At the white house demonstratedd gathered they want justice for r two black men killed by police. Fox 5 lindsay wax, are there still people out there tonight. Reporter shawn, it is very quiet out here now. Street behind me has been cleared. Lights at the white house are offe now. F theres no real evidence of the protest earlier except you can see those two candles there in i the street theres some wax inax the shape of a heart along with protests signs left behind. Most importantly, i want to say this was a peaceful protest p today the crowd was respectful s not only of each other but the and officers were looking out o over their showing video earlier when w several dozen people gathered here. It was a small crowd. During that time yesterday that snipe person dallas ambushed Police Officers at a d rally there. I talked to an organize nerfn this protest today about thehe violence last night. Nig she called it reprehensible and devastating. She also spoke to the. That you can be supportive of the black lifes moment and pro police and feel equally devastated bao baob the violence we have seen thiss week. D other protesters said this rally was to the meant too be anti police. Ol heres how the organizer describes objective. Behind badge as human being. We want the human beings to be held accountable for what theyhy do on their jobs especially ifsc it leads to ending the life of other person. Per this is not us versus them, this not blue versus black. Accountable inpl associate where we have a justice system. I think we can come togetherr and oh company exist. Xis it doesnt have have to be ware on one another. Using fire to theres no the solution to that. It is time for a change. Into. A diverseer this was group of people he we saw many who ended up at the white house started the department ofepar justice building. They chanted and lit candles. More than a dozen officer with f had bothic dc police and homelad security. Protesters marched around the Justice Department before heading here to the white house. Again, a lot of security out for this today but not only note no derespect no aggression, there a was nothing but really com rod derry between police and protesters that. Someone drop up t officers were stappeding rolledd down his window and yelled out thank you for doing the job thae you do. We are expecting to see more of these protests around the dmv this weekends. There were a few additionally tonight besides the one here ane more planned for the days ahead as well. Wel were life at the white house lindsay watts. Fox 5 local news. Muriel bowser and policeic chief honored the officer killer in dallas, they laid a wreath. Died tin the line of duty over the years of the officers working today did their jobsy with a heavy heart. After hearing what he going on last night, obviously its a painful time for the Law Enforcement community ruined thy country. Here in dc its no different. Today i must have gotten 10 10 phone calls from family membersm and friends you okay, you all right. Keep your head up. We support you. Ou. Thats the nice part. Par end of the day your family areae the one that really 26 officer have been killed v in the line of duty this far this year that is a 44 increase from a year ago. Officer targeted in separate attacks a man opened fire on a hotel. He killed one person and woundeu three others including a Police Officers. Ficers. Suspect was black told investigator he was targeting officer because he was troubled by the recent Police Shootings. T officer shot the man he is in i serious condition. In georgia a man called 911 when the officer arrived the man started shooting. The officer shot back bothoth wounded the officer will both will survivor. Officer in missouri is in Critical Condition after he wass shot at a traffic storm police f say the driver shot the officerc in the back as he was walking to his kreuzer the driver tonight d is in custody. C now to priorgesto county where police are feelingi hard ache shootings. The Police Shooting in dallas is bringing back memories whatorie happened a few months back when a Prince Georges County waseo kind gun battle not far from headquarters. Tisha lewis sat down with policw chief hang. Reporter police chief saysr he sent a p message this morning to the entire department making sure everyone understand whats hamming impact us all. G im he is no stranger to tragedy it was four months ago in march, standing here at head quarter this department lost one of o their own a mid gunfire. Now they are banding together. A week filled with trap . He de. E outside Prince Georges Countyuy Police Head Quarter flags stood at they were out there, at thehe end of this, couldnt have expected the degree to whicho they were risking their lives to preserve the rights of americans to screes themselves. Reporter we satcr down withw the police chief hes familiar, it was just four months ago a gunman opened fire outside the t county police headquarters. 29 year old officer jacai cole c son was killed during the shoot out. The piece that the gets overlooked isnt the officers themselves because weve all come to terms with the danger of this job, i think the piece overlooked is the families whoho see their loved once go out to engage in this profession. But in this environment, the family that is more uncertain thanis ever about what dangers d their loved one will face. The snipper shooting is a tragic turning. For police and the community. C were failing to value what promising in all the world by by failing to do what is our obligation, and that is to speak freely and consider onene anothers views and then come to a consensus about moving forward for the best result for everyone. Reporter he says on the heals of the three shootings, all sides need to come together. But if we dont look at thest seven deaths in totality andit a agree that we need to back away from the bring of something, and use that no matter what side ofe that argument you are on to good purpose may be thats the good that comes out of these tragedies so that we all come out of this safer thatser probably wap stand out the most about my interview, he says botb sides need to talk and haveave dialogue thats important. I until both sides truly listen to each other, thats when progres will be pavement tisha lewis fo 5 localti news. There has been an out pourinu of support for i was enforcement. Montgomery thanking police they include pictures of some of thee gifts people dropped off. An Arlington Police septemberer out this tweet they said a man named lawrence set up a lemonemn aid stand. It is nice to see positive stories. Some of the other big stories a metro operator fired after a close call jostle john anothert virginia man accused of trying c to help isis. Isi how investigators tracked him down, plus an expert weighs in on all of the recent local terror arrests gwen. A were going to get a breaka in the humidity. Were going to see that th happening as we move into this weekend im going to have the details andgo what you canu expected in just a bit. N j stay with well be back after the the break. Been trying to prepare for this day. And im still not ready. The reason im telling you this is that there will be moments in your life that. Youll never be ready for. Your little girl getting married being one of them. Know you can keep your financial big picture under control. Know you can see how much you have to spend and whether you should transfer funds. Know you can easily keep track of what youre putting away. And know youre budgeted for the great escape. Thanks to virtual wallet by pnc. Okay, ready . Whoa [ explosion ] nothing should get in the way of the things you love. Get americas fastest internet. Only from xfinity. Northern virginia man is behind bars supporting sizesser isis hes the 7th person reported ond charges linked to the terror group. 25 year old harris kamar, appeared in court. Court documents show he attempted to go to isis but hiss parents took his passport. Then in 2015 he met someone het thought was an isis support are turns out it was an fbi informant who was recording all conversations. He was seeking out targets. Took pictures of landmarks l around the dc area. Kamar allegedly used over 60 twitter handles variation new era jihadi, i spoke with former Homeland Security officers philip way to identify is to start witw the mosque where they congregate. What mosque do thesehese individuals go to thats a more fundamental question than focusing on them as individuals. The fact is muslims do not opt p in a vacuum. Separate from a community. So a lot of the influence thatat were speaking about that drivet them from one stage of life to the next is going to come through the mosque. U. S. Attorneys office sayses 10 people have been arrested ini virginia on terrorism charges linked to ice, seven in last year or so. Kamar faces up to 20 years ines prison if hes convicted. Shawn. Thank you, sarah. The capital and the Visitor Center were placed on lockdownon for about an hour. Capital police thought they spotted what looked like a gun inside a female employees it was a false alarm the item was actually power drill. A power drill. Sometimes you need that at work. In thats so odd. I metro opt is out of a job after a close call on rails. General manager sent a mome to a to metro employees that detailed to yous under arent he said a train operator ran through a signal and almost collided withd another train the train almost nearly hit two track suspectk torse, his memo says given sphaerity of this safety bridge rather than standard suspension for ast first red signal violatn of fence, the operators employment has been terminated. We need to step back in this bac moment and understand what a fundamental change in Safety Culture requires of us. All right. It is time to talk weather. Its the weeks. Gender is here. Well ive got good news fors all of you that dont like tha you are going to get a break. Re. It has been stifling. G. You get a break in that. Its not coming needly it is coming. Tonight will still bay little muggy. It cooled down a little. Tle. Tomorrow morning will be muggy but then then then we get the break that is so well deserved w for everybody, nice shot out there tonight. We had a bit of rain in some of our neighborhoods. Not every where. Take a look at whats hamming areas to the southeast along thh i95 corridor to the north notth much happening mainly all to tho south right now. Not all of you saw much today iy terms of precipitation. Some of you did. Some of those storms a lot of cloud to ground lightening. Much improved now. We didnt get quite as much instability today as anticipated. Winterer a risk of Severe Weather t ah storms did not become widespread, we we got a bit of a break of the clouds tonightht anticipate seeing fog in overnight hours. That will linger to the earl are morning. If you are ed heading out in the morning be a with of that. Improvement though take a looka as we head into the rest of thet weekend things are going to change. The storm pretty much out of the way. Way. Might see isolated one tomorrowm heat and humid first part of sat then we bet get a basement sunday sincere the best day. Another heat way next week. Were going to see a big wise in temperatures. Erat meantime upper 80s, low nightsg highs for day at all three airports, right now we finally got our dc temperature coming in 81 at wasnt too to company, 75 at dulles, 74 degrees at culpeper. Look at dewpoints this hour not bad right now intt the upper 60 and the 70s every where. So, if when you fact in due points temperature this is whatu it actually feels like when you step outside, not as stifling, s feels like 85 in dc, weve got 81 at nap plus, 78 battle m ande 75 at dull laws. L winds are going to be a factor for tomorrow that are going tori actually help us. U because weve got this coldh front thats going to movee through. Its ahead of the front that thet storms fired up today. Behind it were going to get a nicee westerly wind thats going to really kind of make things comfortable for you also. With the pass tach saith of thaa front i cant rule out maybe a stray pop up shower or a stray thunderstorms. Nothing thats going to be domination entire area however. Sunday 80s. 80s. High pressure build in from ohio valley gives us plenty sunshine much cooler day. Heres a look at overnight lows, in 70s. Still a little bit of humidity sticking a out. Same thing fo first part of tomorrow of the hot tomorrow with temperatures into the low 90s right across90 the board. So heres your planner for tomorrow. 89 degree by 4 00 hour, between three to five, is where we have a chance of seeing maybf a stray pop up storm or at least a shower nothing that should ruin outdoor plans. Temperatures start to climb be in the mid 90s by thursday, friday next week, 77 degrees for tonight. Partly cloudy once again patchy fog. Fog will stick around for Early Morning hours of tomorrow. Tom mostly sunny. S hot day at 94. n cant rule out stray storm or too. 7day forecast sunday thats ths day temperatures are going to be a lot cooler and morend comfortable shawn, tony. Thank you, gwen. Today nationals announced straws berg will not pitch next week in the all star game. Mat 0 sheer will replace him. He made his second startd str since coming off disabled list. The mets third inning. Murphy staying red hotter hot against former team. Tea he drives one deep. Jason worth off from first bears nat in front three nothing. Straws berg with his second consecutive straight pitching performance. He earns victor re 110 as the nets win 31. Tomorrow Night National can be scene right here on fox 5. Coverage begins seven p. M. First pitch 7 15. 7 birds honoring anniversary. First he leaps. Makes a home run. Thats an incredible a jonathone takes a fast ball. B he is stunned but he is okay. Or yells lose this one. Thank goodness they wear those helmets. Feather rear entered with a perfect record. He won two of t the first three sets rally to win the final two sets. He becomes First Canadian man to advance to grand slam final. Gwen is cheering because she is canadian. He will face andrew murray. Ray. Tomorrow Serena Williams will go for a record time grand slam title. Are we going to see video. Shes going for a record careerr grand slam title in the ladies final. Stay with us. Well be right back. [announcer] is it a force of nature . Or a sales event . The summer of audi sales event is here. Get up to a 5,000 bonus on select audi models. Finally tonight take a lookon at what a florida man spotted. Look carefully, gwen thats an alligator. Put the picture on facebook, of course it quickly went viral. How many times you see a gatora in a tree. Tre the man thinks it was about fivo feet long. Believe it or not tony and gwen this is not that unheard of, gator are pretty asp jill they can climb trees and fences many times they get up higher. I watched, on video. The Animal Kingdom is up to something. Last last. Today on tmz Jada Pinkett Smith without even knowing it kind of predicted the violence that happened in dallas. Desperate communities keep doing desperate things. Before the news broke. Shes not saying Police Officers re going to get shot. Shes saying there will be some sort of backlash. Its very important that this incident totally enhances the focus that no one has to die for someone else to live. Right. Josh hutcherson, from the hunger games. I go do movies like the hunger games create more us versus them . Its movies, you know, it about political change and evolution. I would like to see Jennifer Lawrence in tight outfits. Me too. Its too motivated to be a factor. Its too motivated to be hot . Im with you but i dont know what that me
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