On january 26, 100 years ago president Woodrow Wilson signed into being the next park. Looking on from the background to mountains join man, you guess im proud of you, the other replies, i always knew you were all right. Further complements followed. Within a matter of month, he was being hailed as the father of document National Park. The title that he himself would soon appropriate in his own writings. The title has followed mills from his time to our own. Despite the most public of example, it raises the lifestyle statue of mills and his Border Collie that have stood in the corner of the park in downtown estes park. 1870, 2 1922, the father of rocky notional park Rocky Mountain National Park. The inscription continues as follows, he brought the love for nature and the wilderness to all that he touched. His legacy is in the scenery and wild gardens of the nature that we continue to enjoy. However, the title father is both unfortunate and misleading. That all too easily lends itself t
Evidence in this case. Still unclear if police had to fire their weapons. But an officer tells me that no one was hurt in this incident. They do tell me that this is unrelated to a robbery that happened nearby. Again, were on the campus of Gw University. No going down that street until police finish their investigation. Were live this morning in northwest. Back to you. All right, molette, thank you. 68 degrees outside the studios. Were able to wake up to cooler air. And the humidity has blown quaye. Its somewhat refreshing, in fact, its pretty nice were going to hash tag this day if you tweet about it beautiful day. Good morning, im angie goff. Lets go to tom kierein with the forecast. A break from high humidity. And were well under way. Excellent visibility. A lot of humidity is going to the south with canadian High Pressure takes a dive. The temperatures at 7 00 will be in the low 70s. Right now were in the 60s. Around 9 00 mid70s. And around 11 00, 80. Low humidity and cooler temper
In foggy bottom. Right now two suspects in custody after an officer involved shooting. Police say it started as a stolen car investigation. Reporter just before 4 00 a. M. , shots fired. Incident, fired shots. Searching on foggy bottom campus. Reporter that text sent out to students. I was asleep and checked my phone and saw my phone. Reporter hours into the morning rush this student passed by an active crime scene on her way to class. At the center of it a red ford with the car doors open. Investigators dusted for fingerprints and collected evidence at the scene where police say the suspects bailed out of the car. Its unclear exactly what prompted the officer to fire his weapon but no one was struck. Crime scene tape an an officer posted turned away pedestrians and car traffic. An alarming start to the day for many in this part of town. Pretty scary. Reporter its possible there is a second car involved in the stolen car investigation. That part of the story coming up in the next half
In about 15 minutes. Right now, things are running smoothly on the red line after a bizarre mishap. A metro train hit a powerline between grosvenor and medical center. Metro Officials Say a public works employee hit a pole with a lawnmower and that caused a penn coe wire to hang in the trains path. Nobody was hurt but they had to single track between the two stations for a while and about 1400 people lost power. A plea deal rejected. The pilot that landed that gyro couldnter on the u. S. Capitol turned down another deal today, this one would have sent him to jail for ten months. An attorney for Douglas Hughes says he believes federal guidelines call for a sentence of zero to six months. Hughes says his light back in april was meant to call attention to the influence of big money in politics a new hearing is now set for the first week of august. First at 4, president ial politics, donald trump is heading to texas to tour the u. S. mexico border. Trump is still drawing fire for character
Right now at 10 if you are planning to takeow metro into dc for the holiday weekend, yound, might want to think twice. Expensive repair work is undernr way shutting down entire stretches of the system. Yste how and when youll be impacted. Must have the courage to escape fear. President obama makes history as the first sitting us president to visit hiroshima. What local veterans have to say about the trip. Plus dozens of doctors plead with olympic officials to rethink the summer games in brazil. Fox 5 local news at 10 starts right now. We begin with the mass of metro repair work that will begin this weekends im tony perkins. Im Sarah Simmons in for shawn. Without access to metro rail during the busy holiday weekend. Plan. Reporter tony and sarah talk about bad timing all of this o going into the holiday weekend, a friendship, he asks what is going on with metro now. Construction, more of the same but you know were all used to it i can tell you whose not used to it tourists. Reporter eve