3 p3 3 the cost of high-tech telephones for cityyoffices is creating even mooe connroversy. this morning, the comptroller is accusing he mayor of pasting taxpayer money and pushinggthrough a purchase pithout bidding tte contract. &phere with thh story you re seeing first on fox. pood morning megan. good morniig,mayor stephanie rawlings blake wants to take control of the city s phooe system.she says it s cheaper to opperate in house. thhn to rely on n outside company. but her plan..requires some big purchases. phones. come switchers and data infrastrrcture.now shh s being called out or the price tag. comptroller joaa pratt is accusing the mayor f spending more than 650-thhusand dollars on roughly 80 telephonee. the mayor s office says ii s ore comptroller is also accusinn the mayor of breaking the law propeely bid to companies. existing contract with a company that s been oing businessswith the city for years. of purchase says if there s an item ttat s going to cost more thaa
this is fox 5 news at 10:00. a mystery unfolding in a popular beach town, a woman found dead inside that dewey beach motel. tonight new details on this suspicious death from police. . less than a year after a maryland woman vanished in a rube arks the man suspected in his dis aruba, the man suspected in her disappearance sues for millions of dollars. plus. all you media guys who know me and followed my career. a five-year drama end with tears and gratitude as roger clemens is found not guilty in his perjury trial. this is a major disappointment for federal prosecutors trying to send the major leaguer to prison. good evening, everyone. i m brian bolter. i m shawn yancy. a jury acquitted clemens on all charges. fox 5 s tom fitzgerald has followed this from the beginning and joins us now. clearly federal prosecutors took a big risk and it backfired. you ll remember the first trial ended in a mistrial. jurors accidentally saw evidence they were not supposed to. the
mistake. and vandal scandal. the stunning moment caught on tape when this man defaced a priceless picasso. the mystery, baffling the art world now. and the frantic search to track him down. good morning, on this tuesday morning. and when you see that x-ray, it s amazing. unbelievable. that he s okay. 16-year-old boy out of florida, was out fishing. and took the spear right through his head. look at that. it went all the way through. he is going to be okay. we have the details, coming up. even doctors are amazed. today is the last day of spring. but you wouldn t know it. record-breaking temperatures all over the country. heat from chicago, to big d, in dallas. and a lot of that heat, headed right for the northeast. sam will be along with all the latest on that. coming our way. we re going to have the latest this morning on the jerry sandusky trial. that trial is so chilling and so sad. his team is mounting defense right now. sandusky has not taken the stand
weeks and so are we going to vote to opt in before we know how to fund it? i m not going to vote to opt in till we know how we re going to fund it. they re considering special taxing districts around the two stations proposed for loudoun county, also a countywide tax and moneys from the county s gas tax. the bottom line right now, you can argue over a few dollars, but we have to figure out a way to come up with $1.2 billion to pay loudoun s share over the next 30 years. that s an awful lot of money to me. not too much for officials who want the county to pony up for phase 2. you know this is going to be a great investment in the county. what we d like to do is become less of a bedroom community and be attractive to corporations. it would significantly help our tax base. we would be able to pay for more roads and more schools and help our infrastructure. so i think this is a great investment for the county and i hope we get the right decision made. if it s ultimately
you re right. today is that day we ll be moving in that direction with highways expected to be well into the 108. let s show you we have a pretty good thunderstorm complex that developed and has been moving to the south and east overnight. bethany beach, salisbury, getting in on that shower activity and one or two showers just north of the border up towards harrisburg as well. so much of the area just kind of cloudy. a little drizzle here and there as well. temperatures at reagan national, 69 degrees. humidity, 81%. wind are out of the six miles per hour. looking at our weather forecast today, it will be somewhat improved. a little more sunshine than yesterday with high temperatures expected to be in the mid- to upper 80s. could be a late day storm, one or two. more details in just a minute. back to you. thank you. our top stories, a mysterious death at a popular summer destination. a woman was found dead in her motel room in dewey beach yesterday morning. delaware poli